The Role Of Surge Skeptics

[W]hen things don't go their way, will they really follow through on
their promises to draw down? Few people believe that. And if they
don't believe it, then the mechanism of pressure doesn't operate. So it
seems to me that the best way for skeptics such as myself to help this
strategy to succeed is to keep a sharp focus on the proposed mechanisms
of change, demanding evidence that they are actually happening, and to
hold the administration to its pledges to maintaining a clear time
horizon and to avoiding the iron logic of serial escalations of a
failing enterprise.

Amen. And will do.

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